World's first website is reborn

Apr. 30, 2013
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A screenshot of the first website ever created. / CERN

by Brett Molina, USA TODAY

by Brett Molina, USA TODAY

CERN, the group of scientists wielding the Large Hadron Collider for research on subatomic physics, has brought the first website ever created back to life.

The lab has details on the first URL created for the Internet on its website. The World Wide Web was created by a team led by CERN's Tim Berners-Lee.

According to the statement on CERN's website, the URL they resurrected is the earliest copy of the 1992 link they could find.

"With few people having access to browsers -- or to web servers so that they could in turn publish their own content -- it must have taken a visionary leap of faith at the time to see why it was so exciting," reads CERN's statement.

More than 20 years later, the World Wide Web has become an incredible tool for communication and information. And cat GIFs. Never forget the cat GIFs.